This is a short video from lunch with John Garamendi about the green future of the West. This segment was actually at the end, and is in response to a question about how we deal with land use in the West.
UPDATE: The bulk of the speech is over the flip.
From left we have John Jamison of Winning Connections, Jill Derby, the former Congressional candidate from NV-2 and current Nevada State Dem Chair, Darrel Thompson, who works for Sen. Maj. Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Steve Ybarra (DNC Hispanic Caucus), and Bill Martin of the DNC (and formerly Montana E.D.).
Over the flip…
Also, check out more at the DNC Western Regional Caucus Blog.
Steve Ybarra talked about voting by mail. In California this is critically important. With almost 50% of the California vote coming from mail. Once you know that people have voted, it is important to take them off the list. You don’t need to spend $$ on people who have already voted.
The next panel is a media panel. On this panel are jack Brady of the Newspaper Association of America, Aleita Huguenin of the California DNC Delegation, Cyrus Krohn of Yahoo!, George Ray of Univision, and Sam Rodriguez of National Cable Communications.
More over the flip…
Jack Brady talked about the importance of newspapers. Check out the NAA’s website here. It is true that newspapers are credible in ways that TV isn’t, and there is good targeting with newspapers.
Cyrus Krohn talked about the Yahoo behemoth’s various properties. Between Flickr, Yahoo Answers, Jumpcut, they are all over the place on the web. He admits to uploading video to YouTube, a Google property. Oooh, busted!
George Ray previously discussed the newly situated Univision. Ethnic media is of growing importance to campaigns. In California, there are almost 2.7 Registered Latino voters, about 1/7 of the electorate. Additionally, there are another 1+million Latinos eligible for naturalization.
Sam Rodriguez talked about micro-targeting. THis is something that Chris Bowers has talked about extensively. Cable has some great potential with Video on Demand and the wealth of different offerings. In 1992, Bob Mulholland worked micro-targeting exceptionally well, and well ahead of his time, to help elect Barbara Boxer. Good work, Bob!!
This panel, which was very well attended, was kicked off by the pledge of allegiance, led by the veterans in attendance. Of course, supporting the troops means more than mere tokenism, and Democrats have begun to address the deep stress that the Bush Administration has place our troops under.
Ben Tulchin of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research discussed how we did in 2006 and how we are working for 2008.
Judith Golub (Immigrant Legal Resource Center) discussed the current immigration plan. They oppose the current plan as it is.
Rosalind “Ros” Gold of the NALEO Educational fund discussed immigration and the Latino vote. Immigration is not the only issue for Latinos, but it is a very important issue. Over half of poll recipients said that immigration was the the most important issue, 51%. 63% of Latinos think that immigration is a good thing for the country.
Here are Ms. Gold’s slides:
You can these powerpoint slides at the DNC WRC blog soon.
From left: Debbi Evans, Treasurer of SoCal Grassroots, Mayme Hubert and four waters of Take Back Red California, Thom O’Shaugnessey of the Irish-American Caucus of the CDP and SoCal Grassroots, Martha Gamez, now of the Jerry McNerney for Congress campaign, Leah Schiebe/Chair, Project Bluebridge
Tom Mullins/Chair, SoCal Grassroots.
One thing that was not mentioned was [ActBlue.com http//actblue.com] which enables us to raise funds with far fewer hassles. ActBlue takes care of much of the FEC requirements and lets grassroots leaders just work to raise the money.
The Grassroots leaders talked about how we work in Red vs. blue counties. More in the comments…
More from the DNC’s Western Regional Caucas Meeting. The Second Session was titled “How the West Was Won”. Above (from left) you’ll see: Larry Scanlon, Political Director of AFSCME, Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and Jim Gonzales, Chair of the New House PAC. More in the comments…
I’m sitting in the first session, trying to use my very slow cell phone internet connection. It’s slow, very, very slow. But, the first session is on right now. So far, Rick Ridder, a pollster-type guy from RBI Strategies told us about the election of Bill Ritter in Colorado and the importance of conservation of the West.
Above, you’ll see Jim Hard, President of SEIU Local 1000 talking about the Alliance for a Better California (hey, I heard they had a great blogger there!) and some of the mistakes Arnold made during the 2005 Special and the importance of building coalitions. Maggie Linden then discussed Props 73/85. More coming…